Wiretap 3.02 - Radio & Internet

Wiretap 3.02 was a week-long research workshop with radiomakers and Internet workers from the Netherlands and from republics of the former Yugoslavia. On the last day, a live-production session was broadcasted on the Internet and rebroadcast live by local ether stations in Amsterdam and Ljubljana.

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16

Feb 1997

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23

Feb 1997

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V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

Wiretap 3.02 investigated the relationship between radio
and Internet. It combined a presentation about independent
media in former Yugoslavia (16.02.) and a live-radio production
for the Internet and the ether (23.02.), with a week-long
workshop during which the participants explored the specificities
of the two media and the possibilities of combining them.
In this way, the programme combined V2_'s plan to develop
activities that would lead to a production-oriented workshop/medialab,
with the importance of presenting the work that is being
done in the field of new media to an interested audience.

Radio is still one of the most effective media for independent
media producers. Relatively cheap technology coupled with
the possibility to broadcast to local target audiences and
a broad range of modes of presentation and expression (live
reporting, interviews, features, music, ...) make it a powerful
"tactical" medium.

The Internet offers very different,
but similarly interesting, tactical opportunities. Wide
availability, multi-medial presentation, direct publishing,
information and content on demand - these are only some
of the features of the medium.

The relationship between
radio and Internet can be indirect (as in the announcing
of radio stations and programmes via newsgroups, mailing
lists, websites, etc.) or direct, when the Internet is used
for the transmission of radio items (RealAudio, Shockwave),
or when radio signals are used to transmit digital information
(Packet Radio *). Many other intermediate forms are imaginable.

Wiretap 3.02 investigated the specificities and the
synergetic potentials of the two media. It consisted of
a week-long research workshop during which a group of radiomakers
and Internet workers from the Netherlands and from republics
of the former Yugoslavia visited groups and institutions
who are exploring the potentials of radio and Internet.
A preparatory communication for getting to know each other
and for a discussion about the different systems was conducted
in the weeks before, via an e-mail mailing list. The workshop
itself started on February 16th, 1997, with a series of
informal public presentations of the work done with radio
and internet by the participants from ex-Yugoslavia (organised
by Press Now in Amsterdam). After a week of working visits,
the programme was rounded off on Sunday, February 23rd,
with a public live-production session where the results
of the week's visits were brought together and realised
in a live-radio broadcast on the Internet and via the ether.
The Dutch station IKON broadcasted part of the program live
on Radio 5.